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Re:New Distros Coming to Bash/WSL via Windows Store by bitwize on Thursday May 11, 2017 @08:47PM (#14320668)
Why would you want this, when the NT kernel is so much better architected than any extant Unix except for perhaps Solaris?
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Re:New Distros Coming to Bash/WSL via Windows Store by quickben on Thursday May 11, 2017 @11:06PM (#14321127)
POSIX is a standard.

Windows has yet to provide a consistent way how to obtain the OS version across releases. Then we can maybe talk about standardizing apps communications.

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Re:New Distros Coming to Bash/WSL via Windows Store by ralish on Friday May 12, 2017 @12:07AM (#14321373)
Uh, that may not be the best example. Are you aware of a reliable way to retrieve the OS version across all POSIX OSs? Because if you are, I would love to hear it.
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Re:New Distros Coming to Bash/WSL via Windows Store by quickben on Friday May 12, 2017 @01:23AM (#14321607)
Probably, but MS is a single vendor, with one (sort of) brand of an OS. They have full control over it.
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